Lesotho - Emergency food assistance to populations affected by drought

The present intervention concerns the emergency food assistance to populations affected by drought in 2005. It aims to contribute to the alleviation of the suffering of the drought-affected victims. The assistance should be channeled through targeted food distribution to households with insufficient crop production (as a result of insufficient rainfall), and to those with no livestock or other sources of income (remittances and wage labour) to purchase food and other basic needs; and widows, orphans, female and elderly-headed households without visible means of survival. This Relief assistance should be specifically targeted to provinces and districts most affected by poor rainfall. The intervention of the African Development Bank should be used to purchase food (approximately 1000 tons of maize), as well as associated costs of transportation and distribution of food rations to the beneficiaries and for administrative charges.